The Third Circle Of Hell In The Case Of Winnie The Pooh

Winnie the Pooh from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is bound for the Third Circle of Hell, for his gluttonous nature is evident in the excessive amount of honey he consumes.

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When Pooh is prompted what his favorite thing is, his first thought is that “although Eating Honey [is] a very good thing to do, there [is] a moment just before you began to eat it which [is] better than when you [do]” (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh).

Warrant:
Pooh’s overindulgence and unnatural obsession of honey surfaces as it becomes the only thing that he can think about in his everyday life. Further, his incontinence is evident in his inability to control his himself around even the thought of honey.

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When Pooh says that he does not

The extreme extent of his attachment prevents Pooh from leading a proper, virtuous life.

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During Dante’s journey through the Inferno, Ciacco declares that he was sent to the third circle because “gluttony was [his] offense” (Alighieri 6.50). Further, Pooh himself parades around gobbling up immeasurable amounts of honey he bullies his friends into giving him; one time, he eats so much of his friend Rabbit’s honey that he gets so fat that he is unable to fit through doorways.

Warrant:
Dante establishes that gluttony causes harm, and he also determines that those who are guilty of it are bound for the third circle of Hell. Therefore, by extension, because Pooh causes harm by constantly hogging all of the honey in the Hundred Acre Wood, the work of Alighieri condemns him to the third circle to accompany

Pooh is infamous for stashing superfluous amounts of honey in his home in the Hundred Acre Wood. Honey constitutes the majority of his possessions- he has collected so much that his furniture is overrun with jars of it. On days when he is not stockpiling ridiculous amounts of honey, Pooh asserts that “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside” (The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh). Through seemingly innocent words, Pooh insinuates that he has an uncontrollable desire for hoarding honey; further, because he is seldom observed without a friend, one can infer that he means that he always has gallons of honey stashed away in his home. Dante says that hoarders and wasters are bound for circle four in his vision of